Who Is the King of Mobile Bay? A Reader Debate Over the City’s Real Power Brokers
Plenty of names have been floated over the years for the title of “King of Mobile” — shorthand for whoever can make things happen in this city, or stop them,…
Twenty-Five Years On, Mobile Weighs Whether Its Convention Center Delivered
A quarter century after Mobile bet its downtown revival on a waterfront convention center, business and civic figures offered a candid, divided verdict on whether the gamble paid off.
How an Early Internet Project Preserved a Snapshot of Downtown Mobile Around 2000
Long before Google Street View, an independent website called WalkaboutCity.com set out to let visitors “be there before you get there” in downtown Mobile, quietly building one of the earliest…
Mobile Mayor Mike Dow Poised to Step Aside, Clearing the Way for a Peavy-Jones Contest
Sources said in December 2004 that Mobile Mayor Mike Dow did not intend to seek a fifth term, setting up an expected 2005 mayoral race between City Councilman John Peavy…
Peavy Votes for the Budget He Criticized, Then Takes Charge of Rewriting the City’s Playbook
Mobile's newest councilman backed a budget that drains $21.1 million from capital funds, calling the vote a fait accompli, and was promptly handed the city's new strategic initiative.
Peavy Votes for the Budget He Criticized, Then Takes Charge of Rewriting the City’s Playbook
Mobile's newest councilman backed a budget that drains $21.1 million from capital funds, calling the vote a fait accompli, and was promptly handed the city's new strategic initiative.